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Brazilian Adults' Attitudes and Practices toward the Mandatory Vaccination for COVID-19 and the Hesitancy about Childhood Vaccination

Edson Zangiacomi Martinez
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Miriane Lucindo Zucoloto
,
Vânia Pinheiro Ramos
,
Carla Daiane Costa Dutra
,
Giselle Juliana de Jesus
,
Arinete Véras Fontes Esteves
,
Isabella Schroeder Abreu
,
Monica Augusta Mombelli
,
Roberta Alvarenga Reis
,
Marilia Marcondes Campoamor
,
Wanderson Roberto da Silva
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Claudia Benedita dos Santos
Version 1 : Received: 31 August 2022 / Approved: 1 September 2022 / Online: 1 September 2022 (02:25:22 CEST)

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Martinez, E.Z.; Zucoloto, M.L.; Ramos, V.P.; Dutra, C.D.C.; de Jesus, G.J.; Esteves, A.V.F.; Abreu, I.S.; Mombelli, M.A.; Reis, R.A.; Campoamor, M.M.; da Silva, W.R.; dos Santos, C.B. Brazilian Adults’ Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination and Their Hesitancy towards Childhood Vaccination. Vaccines 2022, 10, 1853. Martinez, E.Z.; Zucoloto, M.L.; Ramos, V.P.; Dutra, C.D.C.; de Jesus, G.J.; Esteves, A.V.F.; Abreu, I.S.; Mombelli, M.A.; Reis, R.A.; Campoamor, M.M.; da Silva, W.R.; dos Santos, C.B. Brazilian Adults’ Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination and Their Hesitancy towards Childhood Vaccination. Vaccines 2022, 10, 1853.

Abstract

Background: This study describes the attitudes and practices of Brazilian adults regarding the mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 and the hesitancy to children´s vaccination. Methods: The participants answered an online questionnaire disseminated on social networks. An adaptation of the SAGE-WG questionnaire was used to measure the children's vaccination hesitancy. Results: Among 1,007 participants, 677 (67.4%) believed that vaccination for COVID-19 among adults should be mandatory. Just over half of the participants (51.5%) believe that parents and guardians should be free to decide whether their children should be vaccinated against COVID-19, and 9.1% were unsure about this. Younger, non-religious people who have higher self-perceptions of risk for COVID-19, and who evaluate the federal government's performance in combating the disease as bad or very bad, have a higher agreement with mandatory vaccination, a lower agreement that parents and guardians should be free to vaccinate their children, and lower child vaccination hesitancy scores. Conclusion: In Brazil, mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for adults is far from a consensus, and an expressive part of the population believes that parents and guardians should be free to choose whether or not to vaccinate their children. These perceptions and vaccine hesitancy for children are associated with religious and political inclinations.

Keywords

COVID-19; vaccine hesitancy; children; pediatrics; public health

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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